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community, THE NEW England North West is set to benefit from a federal government grant to Toy Libraries Australia. The $19,935 in funding will allow the organisation to deliver Messy Play Days to towns across regional NSW, including…

Small builder Lane Stockton from Stockton Homes says larger builders will benefit from the grant but others will miss out. Picture: Nigel Hallett THE Federal Government’s $25,000 HomeBuilder package has been slammed by critics as being…

The Berejiklian government has abandoned a long-held commitment to adopt a statewide policy on air pollution after years of planning that included a state summit on the issue. The decision to drop a standalone clean air strategy has…

In one of those strange circle of life things, about three years ago, I had a conversation with Greg Combet about how Australian politics could pull itself out of the death spiral of rolling leadership coups.Combet – one of Labor’s…

Libya's UN-recognised government announced Friday another victory in its counter-offensive against eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, overrunning his last western stronghold Tarhuna, launchpad of an abortive 14-month assault…

The HomeBuilder program was slammed by detractors almost as soon as it was announced, with many claiming details in the fine print would end up shafting those who needed it most. Most of the fierce backlash so far has centred on the…

A government panel agreed Thursday that victims of cyberbullying should have the right to ask website and social media operators and internet service providers to disclose names and phone numbers of those who have made defamatory…

PETALING JAYA - Datuk Shahruddin Md Salleh (pic) has quit his position as deputy works minister, but there is still confusion whether he remains with the Perikatan Nasional government. In a letter of resignation which was tagged to his…

Just 38 of a predicted 36,000 food boxes have been delivered under a $9.3m government initiative designed to deliver emergency food supplies to older Australians isolating throughout Covid-19. The emergency food supplies program was…

Officials from Scott Morrison’s department are refusing to release conflict of interest disclosures from members of the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission so they can be scrutinised by the public because the declarations are…

More than a tenth of the population in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African country plagued by jihadist violence, is at risk of hunger, according to government figures issued on Thursday. A report by the country's…

SINGAPORE - Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim on Thursday (June 4) questioned the Government's decision to task NTUC with the administration of a government support scheme, saying this could have implications for accountability. She…

news, latest-news, THE "last little refuge" for aquatic wildlife in the Peel River is under threat after environmental water releases from Chaffey Dam were cut off, according to a local river advocacy group. OzFish Northwest president…

The education ministry has warned elementary schools nationwide to be on alert for traffic incidents as schools reopen following the full lifting of the country’s coronavirus state of emergency last week.Police are stepping up…

The Morrison government will fund grants worth $25,000 for eligible singles and couples planning to build or renovate homes between June and the end of December, with the uncapped program estimated to cost taxpayers $688m.With the March…

Kosovo named a new government Wednesday after months of political turmoil in the former Serbian province, casting out left-wing leader Albin Kurti and raising tensions with his supporters. The new government was cobbled together…

news, latest-news, water, pipeline, tamworth, chaffey dam, environmentTHE TWO biggest stakeholders in the running of Chaffey Dam were not officially notified of the decision to stop controversial environmental flows, before it was…

Scholars and activists have raised concern about the freedom of speech in Indonesia following alleged acts of intimidation against critics of the government’s policy to restrict mobility to stem the Covid-19 pandemic. Bivitri Susanti, a…